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Buxton was Wilberforces designated successor as leader of the parliamentary anti-slavery campaign. The MSS document the Buxton familys close involvement in the parliamentary campaign of 1833.

Diaries, photographs and letters concentrating on the period when Hore-Belisha was Minister of War 1937 - 1940 and particularly on the events surrounding the dismissal of Neville Chamberlain

Written from The Knoll, Ambleside to George Grote who was trying to help Martineau with money problems at The Westminster Review

Very detailed in the later years: no other such record is known for any other town of this period in the old county of Berkshire

The author was born and died in Chester. On the accession of Queen Mary he joined the exiles in Strasburg. This work argues in favour of Wyatts rebellion and was secretly circulated in England

Interleaved with MS notes, paper cuttings, early photographs, engravings pen and pencil drawings, 5 large coats of arms and 24 watercolours, some of them by William Wheatley

Replies to letters from de Quincey already at Dove Cottage. The letters discuss a variety of subjects, including the printing of The Convention of Cintra, de Quinceys intended move to Grasmere, Coleridges The Friend, and family matters

First edition, a fine copy in Taylor and Hesseys trade binding

Contains a dedicatory poem by Wordsworth. The Duchess of Manchester was the principal subscriber: the list is only 66 names long

Accounts of John Randolph listing income and expenditure in the six forest bailiwicks together with similar accounts for the manors of Lyndhurst, Burghtone, Minnestoke and Ringwood